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Chapter 1798 Tough Response

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Under such circumstances, An Yi did not hesitate at all, and immediately summoned Hu Jialin, Yang Bin, Gu Changfeng, Xia Jian, Zhao Rui, Deng Bin, Zhao Dongquan, Yang Fei, Zhan Dao, Ding Zhicheng, Chang Baofang, Zhang Yang, Wu Liheng, Lu Yixuan, Dai Zhengliang and other generals to gather in Syria and hold a meeting in the base camp of Cuiping Mountain for more than ten consecutive days.

The day after Zhao Rui returned to Syria, the Nanjing Government issued a notice that the Fourth Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government would be abolished with immediate effect due to overlapping operations, and that all relevant documents, certificates, and license plates issued before would be invalidated, and that the relevant staff would be appointed separately, and that the Fourth Department would be stationed in various offices and merged into the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government.

Just two hours after the announcement was issued by the Nanking side, a presidential decree signed by An Yi, chairman of the South China Government, was broadcast on the news on the hour of the Syrian Radio -- In order to strengthen the intelligence work in South China and prevent the infiltration of hostile countries, the South China Central Intelligence Bureau was specially established. General Zhao Rui, former director of the Fourth Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, was appointed director of the newly established Central Intelligence Agency in South China, promoted to the rank of general (previously lieutenant general and general), and the staff of the Fourth Department were transferred to the CIA.

This was obviously a-for-tat personnel appointment, which immediately brought to light the contradictions between the Anyi Group and the Nanjing government. Many panicked, seeing this as a harbinger of a possible war between the warlord clique in the southwest and the central government, rushed to buy and hoard food supplies, and were ready to flee at any time.

However, sober-minded people understand that the current relationship between the two sides is complicated, and there are many entanglements of interests. In a word, what to do or what to do!

In fact, An Yi also knew very well in his heart that Chiang Kai-shek's handling of the Fourth Hall was actually just a test signal to see if he could continue to tolerate it, and then press forward step by step in other places in order to get more benefits.

It is estimated that Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that his counterattack would be so sharp. At present, Nanhua's tungsten, antimony, tin, rare earth, bauxite, titanium, nickel and other rare metals still need domestic supply, and at the same time, Lugang, Syrian Iron and Steel and other iron and steel groups have a large demand for pig iron, coal and blister copper, but An Yi knows better that unlimited concessions will only boost the arrogance of the other party. Rather than this, it is better to ring the alarm bell first and let the other party restrain from the precipice.

An Yi was sure that Chiang Kai-shek didn't dare to do anything to himself, after all, millions of troops in South China were there, and if there was really a war, Chiang Kai-shek also knew what the consequences would be. According to the current situation, Nanjing will only show that everything is business as usual, but it will quietly take precautions in private, while secretly dispatching troops and actively defending, while making small moves against many industries in Nanhua in China.

Now that the strategic layout of Nanhua has been preliminarily completed, An Yi is confident to face all challenges, and he has not taken those small tricks to heart, after all, in the end, he still has to rely on real strength to speak.

At this military meeting, An Yi first consulted Yang Bin and Lu Yixuan, and the two expressed their willingness to continue to make false promises with Chiang Kai-shek and firmly nail them to North China and Southern Shaanxi.

The meeting then discussed the issue of army expansion.

At present, all the main army groups have expanded their Category B troops, but the number of troops is far from enough to cope with the current war situation. An Yi vaguely had the impression that in World War II, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany mobilized more than 10 million troops, and Nanhua should at least expand its troops to 5 million, so as not to be in a hurry in the sudden war.

According to the decision of the meeting, the reserve corps under Ding Zhicheng's charge was officially upgraded to the main front army, with a guard army and three group armies directly under its jurisdiction, and its main garrisons were Zunyi, Tongzi, and Qijiang between western Hunan, southern Sichuan, eastern Sichuan, and northern Guizhou, and could respond at any time to attacks that might be launched by hostile forces from the direction of Hunan and Jiangxi.

Wu Liheng's daughter-in-law for many years has become a mother-in-law, this senior general who was the commander of the independent division a year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, is an old man who has followed An Yi from the engineering company, and his qualifications in the An family army are far above Zhao Rui, Lu Yixuan, Ye Cheng, Yang Jiuxiao and other generals.

This time, An Yi did not hesitate to appoint Wu Liheng to organize himself into three main group armies and one guard army directly under his command in Yichang, each group army has three infantry divisions and one instructor, and the military headquarters of the group army and the military headquarters of the front army are combined with artillery, engineers, air defense troops, tanks, armor and other specialized arms to unify them into a brigade-level establishment. After the formation of the troops, Wu Liheng will serve as the commander of the front army, mainly to deal with the threats from southern Henan and western Hubei.

In this way, the two domestic front armies, together with Yang Bin's Hanzhong camp troops and Lu Yixuan's 30th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, such a huge strategic force can already deter all those who dare to stretch out their claws to the southwest, and carefully weigh the terrible consequences of starting a war.

In addition, Lieutenant General Qin Shanyue, former head of the General Staff Mobilization Department, was transferred to the post of commander of the reserve corps. The reserve corps is the establishment of the front army, and from the moment it is formed, it is to be allocated according to the main force, and the commanders and political cadres who need it are transferred from the deputy posts of the various armies and the main group army.

After the Fourth Department was renamed the CIA and the relationship was straightened out, Zhao Rui will step down as director of the Intelligence Bureau, and Chen Yu, the former director of the General Affairs Division of the Fourth Department, will take over. Zhao Rui himself entered the National Defense University for further study for half a year, during which he temporarily served as deputy chief of the general staff. As soon as the war development required, Zhao Rui immediately put on the battle and commanded a new front army formed by the reserve corps. According to the plan, this newly formed front army will be mainly used in Central Asia and the Urals.

During the meeting, the war between Europe and Asia was raging.

In the Middle East, General Wavell, the former commander-in-chief of the Anglo-Indian Army, who had been at home in England after failing to command Burma and India, was once again used by Churchill. After Wavell flew to the Middle East, he inspected combat readiness in Damascus, southern Syria, and made a brief and powerful mobilization of soldiers. He said: "Although we are outnumbered by the enemy, we are highly trained, aided by the United States, well equipped, accustomed to desert warfare, have great traditions of glory and sacredness, and are full of indomitable spirit, which will be the guarantee of our invincible victory." ”

On 19 February, the Allied forces of the British, Greek, Anglo-Indian and Arab armies ambushed the southbound German advance force and the Axis Force of the Japanese and Turkish forces at the Malula Mountains in northern and central Syria leading to the south. After a burst of heavy artillery fire, the Allies launched an offensive, and in just a few minutes, more than twenty combat vehicles of the Axis *** team were paralyzed.

The Turkish commander who commanded this force, Kahraman. Lieutenant General Mashra immediately commanded the troops to resist, but the resistance was broken down by the Allies due to the haste of the troops, the end of the battle could not be connected. After more than four hours of fierce fighting, Kahraman. Lieutenant General Mashra was killed, and more than 11,000 Axis *** teams were wiped out.

This was the first Allied victory in the Middle East, which was written about by the British, but unfortunately a partial victory could not hide the overall defeat.

At the same time as the victory in the Malula Mountains, another Axis coalition led by the Japanese army moved south along the Mediterranean coastal road, and the important port cities of Tripoli and Beirut in Lebanon fell into the control of the Axis powers.

On 24 July, Germany transported three infantry divisions and two motorized infantry divisions to the 12th and 13th armies on the Homs front by the Asia-Europe railway, and threw them into the attack on Damascus. At the same time, the Turkish army dispatched six infantry brigades, plus the 15th and 18th divisions of the Japanese army, a total of 300,000 troops, along the railway line to the south.

With the Germans committing more than 200 warplanes to cover the army's attacking advance, General Wavell's ambush at Mount Sheikh was declared a failure. More than 20,000 Allied officers and soldiers were instead encircled by the Axis forces.

On the 26th, after the Allied forces in the encirclement ran out of ammunition and food, the remaining more than 6,000 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Axis *** team.

In the early morning of the 27th, the Axis *** team entered Damascus.

The day before, Wavell had led his army and retreated to the Golan Heights in southern Lebanon. Instead of following the Allies into the western mountains of the Jordanian-Syrian border, the Axis coalition forces on the eastern route marched south, capturing Dara'a, Suweida, and Amman, the capital of Transjordan, on March 4.

In the North African theater, Rommel's corps, reinforced by Hitler's troops, made a strategic detour.

Seeing that the attack on Tubrug could not be stopped, Rommel sent a geological exploration team to detect and dig hundreds of wells from the oil-producing Jalu Oasis to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt through the Jegbubu Oasis, and then sent a detachment of troops from the port of Brega all the way west to Jegbubu, and then crossed the border between Libya and Egypt and approached the city of Siwa.

After capturing the city, built in a desert oasis, the German-Italian army suddenly appeared outside Alexandria on the 28th after a half-month arduous march along the Gettarai Depression.

The British in North Africa were caught off guard, and Alexandria quickly fell into the hands of the German-Italian forces. Rommel immediately sent troops by sea to the largest port city in North Africa.

Commander of the British North African Forces, Jan Brown. Christian. Marshal Shi Mozi urgently mobilized troops from Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone to rush to the rescue, and the two sides exchanged fierce fire and suffered heavy losses, but until now, Alexandria is still firmly controlled by the German-Italian forces.

However, with two Italian battleships and four heavy cruisers stationed in Alexandria, the balance of war had begun to tip in favor of the German-Italian forces. The Italian naval guns posed a great threat to the attacking British army, and the British army was already in an embarrassing situation where they could not advance or retreat.

At the same time, the German and British air forces fought fiercely day and night in the airspace of Alexandria, Port Said and the triangular area of Cairo, the capital of Egypt. With the fall of Alexandria, the Royal Navy fleet had previously been forced to withdraw to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. It is conceivable that once the German forces control the air supremacy in this area, the Royal Navy will suffer a catastrophe.

Under these circumstances, the British air force was constantly being drawn to North Africa to fight, and the situation was chaotic.

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